How to apply gating technique to scramble music?

[Trebor]

What we're trying to do is not exactly the same though as we don't want to insert speech anywhere; we simply want to scramble the melody of the music so that it doesn't sound predictable (we basically want it to sound like unpredictable 'noise')...

If you want the result to be musical, the modifications should be synchronised to the beat of the music,
350ms was chosen as a maximum because it approximately matches the length of the shortest words, (it/we/my).
If your project has nothing to do with words you can ignore the 350ms limit.

Do you need the scrambling to preserve the pitch ?, if not ...

full-bucket frequency-shifter plugin in Audacity on Windows

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[steve]

There's a plug-in here that you could try: viewtopic.php?p=160165#p160165
It is a "Nyquist plug-in".

Installation instructions for Nyquist plug-ins
Windows: https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/ins ... st_install
macOS: https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/ins ... st_install
Linux: https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/ins ... st_install

[TinkyWinky]

I've now downloaded Audacity 3.0.0.

Thanks for all your info and help, everyone. It's much appreciated.